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English
Etymology
From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb), from Latin assentiō.
Pronunciation
Verb
assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)
- (intransitive) To agree to a proposal.
2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated:To assent to the words
Of medieval law
To pay a corporal price
To death, by lapidation
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to agree, give approval
- Bulgarian: одобрявам (bg) (odobrjavam), съгласявам се (sǎglasjavam se)
- Finnish: suostua (fi), myöntää (fi)
- French: assentir (fr)
- Italian: assentire (it)
- Latin: assentiō
- Maori: whakakoia, whakaae, āe
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: samtykke (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: samtykkje
- Occitan: assentir (oc)
- Portuguese: assentir (pt)
- Quechua: añiy, huñiy
- Russian: одобря́ть (ru) (odobrjátʹ), соглаша́ться (ru) (soglašátʹsja)
- Serbo-Croatian: pristanak (sh) m, odobrenje (sh) n
- Slovak: súhlasiť
- Spanish: asentir (es), consentir (es)
- Swedish: samtycka (sv)
- Turkish: kabul etmek (tr), onaylamak (tr), rıza göstermek (tr)
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Noun
assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)
- agreement; act of agreeing
I will give this act my assent.
1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.
- (countable, property law) A legal instrument that conveys real estate to an heir under the terms of a will.
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agreement, act of agreeing
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Latin
Verb
assent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of assō